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Concerned residents of Ondo State have joined the nationwide protest to demand the total scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force.  The protesters stormed the streets of Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to express their feelings. They condemned how SARS operatives had been killing, extorting and violating the rights of innocent Nigerian youth.  One of the protesters, who identified himself only as Abiodun, said that the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad should be condemned by all Nigerians.  “We decided to join the protest to agitate for the total banning of SARS.  “The police unit is a total disgrace to our security and many of them are made up of criminals, who always trample on the rights of innocent citizens.  “We want a total end to their activities and would continue to join the struggle for EndSARS.” Human Rights Police News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaR...

Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has been denied bail by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was invited for questioning earlier on Thursday. SaharaReporters had on Wednesday reported that Obasa and some top accounting officials in the Lagos Assembly were invited by the EFCC for questioning. Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Obasa honoured the invitation at about 10:00am on Thursday and was grilled for many hours by top officials of the anti-graft agency. Against his expectations, he was denied bail by the EFCC, forcing him to be kept for the night at the commission’s office. See Also Exclusive EXCLUSIVE: How Obasa’s Wife Receives N10m Illegal Monthly Allocation From Lagos Assembly 0 Comments 5 Months Ago SaharaReporters gathered that Obasa’s wife, accused of collecting N10m monthly allowance from the Assembly’s coffers , was invited earlier in the week by the EFCC and was gran...

Ahmed Lawan The Nigerian Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the Economic Sustainability Plan so as to strengthen the economy in view of the resultant impact occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, gave the charge on Thursday in a welcome address delivered during the presentation of the 2021 budget estimate by President Buhari at a joint session of the National Assembly. Ahmed Lawan According to Lawan, there was the urgent need by the government to sustain programmes aimed at economic diversification, not only because of the unpredictable nature of oil revenue but due to recent uncertainties arising from the Coronavirus outbreak. He added that sufficient injection of funds into such programmes would give a boost to the nation’s economy. Lawan said, “The implementation of the 2020 budget has shown a remarkable improvement over the previous years.  “Certainly, the injection of funds for the various programmes and proje...

Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Nigerian Government has condemned the killing of a Nigerian migrant worker in Tripoli, Libya. SaharaReporters had reported that the yet to be identified Nigerian was burnt to death on Tuesday when three Libyans stormed a factory in the Tripoli neighborhood of Tajoura where African migrants were working. Abike Dabiri-Erewa It was learnt that they poured petrol on him and set him on fire but the reason for the crime had not been revealed. Reacting in a statement on Thursday,  Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, condemned the act. The statement reads, “The NIDCOM describes the act as dastardly, bestial and unacceptable. We call on the Libyan authorities to apply the full weight of the law on the suspected killers.” Meanwhile, a statement by the Libyan Interior Ministry has condemned the act, insisting that it was a new wave of violence on migrants in North Africa. The United Nations has also de...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has dared President Muhammadu Buhari to stop them from launching Radio Biafra in Daura, his hometown. The Nigerian Government had on Wednesday approved N654m for the deployment of hybrid spectrum monitoring system that would target illegal frequencies in the Southern part of the country especially, the South-East. According to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, his ministry has uncovered 320 frequencies being used all over the country out of which 106 were illegal. IPOB in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said, “The  attention of the global movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra ably led by our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the approval of N654m by the Federal Government of Nigeria to monitor and crash Radio Biafra  frequencies in the country particularly in South-East and South-South geopolitical zones. “This wicked but futile decision was taken during th...

Hadi Sirika Top aviation sources have revealed to SaharaRepoters that Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, was deliberately holding on to workers’ salaries and allowances in a bid to raise enough money to contest the next governorship election in Katsina State. It was also gathered that the minister in a bid to raise funds needed to realise his ambition, was doing all he can to sell the country’s airports. He is said to be working hard to prove that government could no longer manage the facilities just so he can auction them off and raise some money for his governorship ambition. Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika. He is said to be keen on selling the four major airports in Nigeria — Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt. Sirika has also been accused of using his cronies to head agencies like Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, National Airport Management Authority, Accident Investigation Bureau, and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. The minister is believed to be raising mon...

Determined to silence their agitation, police officers in Abuja have again launched a violent attack on members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly known as Shiites, during a protest to demand the freedom of their leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and wife, Zeenat. The police attacked the peaceful and unarmed protesters using teargas and water cannons to suppress their demands for the freedom of El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention since December 2015. Secretary of the Academic Forum of the movement, Abdullahi Musa, confirmed the attack while speaking with SaharaReporters. He said members of the group were commemorating the Arba’een symbolic trek, which ends with a march to demand the freedom of El-Zakzaky when the police swooped on them. He said after the police took over venue of the protest, the IMN members moved to another venue to hold the demonstration but the law enforcement agents followed, attacked and arrested many of them. Musa said, “We are commemoratin...

Italy has made it compulsory to wear nose masks in public as part of measures to stop the spread of Coronavirus. The new directive adds that all Italians must also wear nose cover in their houses. FT Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, said the measure is aimed at averting an imminent lockdown that would occur and devastate the economy if precaution was not taken. He said, “From now on, masks and protective gears have to be brought with us when we leave our house and worn. We have to wear them all the time unless we are in a situation of continuous isolation.” Italians experienced one of the strictest lockdown measures in the world earlier in the year after thousands died from the virus in that country, BBC reports. Cases in the European nation surged in the last 24 hours, passing the 3,000 mark for the first time since 24 April, registering 3,678 new infections according to data from the county’s Health Ministry. International PUBLIC HEALTH News AddThis :  ...

Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party National Campaign Council for Info State Governorship election, has rejected Prof Eyitope Ogunbodede as the Independent National Electoral Commission Chief Returning Officer for the exercise. According to Makinde during a press conference in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Thursday, the October 10 poll won’t be free and fair if the electoral commission as presently composed will oversee the exercise.  INEC is, however, yet to disclose the name of the collation officer for Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Makinde said, “However, it has come to our notice that the people of Ondo State will not be getting free and fair elections if the Independent National Electoral Commission as presently composed will be overseeing the elections. “We are speaking in particular about the appointment of Prof Eyitope Ogungbenro Ogunbodede, Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a...

Some gunmen have reportedly abducted one person in Pegi community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja. The abduction took place on Wednesday night at about 8:30pm. The kidnappers fired several gunshots at a Volkswagen car, leaving the occupants with varying degree of injuries. Chairman of Pegi Community Development Association, Mr Taiwo Aderibigbe, confirmed the incident to journalists. The incident has sent panic across the area with resident now afraid to move around the area freely. Public Relations Officer of FCT Police Command, Manzal Anjuguri, was not available for comment when contacted. Recall that some gunmen had in June kidnapped three persons in the same community while they were returning from work around 10:00pm. CRIME News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3d84Y9a via EDUPEDIA

Students of Delta State tertiary institutions and their parents have protested over the imposition of compulsory N10,000 fee on them by their schools’ authorities. The institutions had asked students to pay the fee tagged ‘upgrade of COVID-19 facilities’. At the Delta State University, Abraka, returning undergraduate and diploma students for the 2019/2020 academic session are to compulsorily pay N5,000 each while postgraduate students are to pay N10,000 each. SaharaReporters gathered that the payment, which applied to the three campuses of the institution, Oleh, Abraka and Anwai, must be paid before students are allowed for academic activities. A bulletin by the institution’s management dated Monday, October 5, 2020, reads, “All returning postgraduate and undergraduate students of the Delta State University are required to take the following steps in order to revalidate their registration for the 2019/2020 academic session. “This is to enable management plan for the healt...